Great piece. Nailed it.
“America under Trump is no longer the guarantor of our security, our trade, or the international rules-based order, and has demonstrated it will be disloyal to even its closest allies … It’s no longer to our global advantage to be regarded as a close US ally.”
#AusPol
For the first time in my life, I'm actually on the side of the Catholic church.
Hell must be getting bloody cold...
English doesn't have a huge olfactory lexicon (we tend to use similes) and over time the words we do have tend to become more pejorative, so I really enjoyed this author's descriptions: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Also 'fatberg' and 'pooballs'
It's almost as if care industries shouldn't be in the hands of for-profit enterprises? Like there's a something other than people as their bottom line? Weird 🤷♀️
New over here so introducing myself with some commentary on Artemis II!
I’m in one group chat where the whole thing is that we exclusively talk about and share poetry we like and somebody shared this in the chat today and we were all like “yes, absolutely right, this belongs in here alongside John Ashbery”
Australian oud virtuoso Joseph Tawadros offering a hymn of thanks...
“Australia Institute research has shown there is no link between increases in the minimum wage and future inflation, because guess what – most people don’t actually compare themselves to those on the lowest wages in Australia.” – Greg Jericho
Read more on The Point: https://theaus.in/4bV8Usy
Can confirm that it's effing freezing in Canberra
Doing a talk with Nick Evans on plant cognates to the ANU archaeology dept this Friday if anyone interested. Zoom details in link:
archanth.cass.anu.edu.au/events/plant...
(The child was kindergarten/prep aged)
Shopping cart typical of old ladies
Some people at the bus stop next to me just collected their granddaughter from fancy private school and put her in one of these:
"It's time to call BS on the idea that we can't afford to look after Australians.
"Subsidies that largely go to Clive Palmer, Gina Rinehart, BHP, Rio Tinto are growing faster than the NDIS."
@rodcampbell.bsky.social on Australia's out-of-control fossil fuel subsidies. #auspol
🎧 theaus.in/3PHIcMu
My primary school had Auslan as an L2 because of all the deaf students there, but ideally all schools should have Auslan classes regardless of whether there are deaf or HoH kids there.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
Completely ignoring that insufficient funding is the root cause of crap food in aged care etc. It's Jamie Oliver all over again.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
If I’m going to be carding every single customer without checking whether they’re home anyway, then I may as well get the cards done first,” he explained.
theshovel.com.au/2026/03/19/a...
Quite enjoyed this as the owner of "a little bitch hatchback".
One thing that a supposedly progressive government might want to do, if it so chose, would be to tax the gigantic windfall profits of large gas companies and use that money for, oh I don’t know, rental assistance, building houses, cost of living relief, that sort of thing
My partner and I are both guilty of this: he thinks I eat too slowly and gets annoyed when I save my leftovers to eat later. Thinks I should eat everything at once.
I think he eats way too fast though and should slow down to enjoy his meals. If he gets full, save the rest for another time.
I was in my 2nd year of a fine arts/arts double degree and was required to do intro linguistics to fulfil my major in European Studies.
It was taught by a notoriously dull lecturer and so had a high drop-out rate. I'd never even heard of linguistics until meeting that walking cardigan!
This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.
They’ll play this in museums in future.
(🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)
Trump yelling at kid lawnmowing meme
YOU WEAR SIZE 14 SHOES, RIGHT?
Heinous 'killing people is fun' comment aside, is Trump arguing for military enslavement? I'm reading that right, yeah?
My almost-3 year old skipped a nap today and is now in possession of not one, not two, but three tin whistles.
🎺🎺🎺
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Coffee, straight out of my nose.
My 2.5 year old has named one of her dolls Bongus
😂
Sometimes when I need a laugh, I ask my mum questions about technology:
Mum, what's AI?
Mum, do you know where the cloud is?
Mum, what's the dark web?
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2 ace post-doc positions at UQ on Prof Felicity Meakins' Australian Research Council Laureate project: ‘Amplifying Indigenous Ecological Knowledge in Western Science with Language’.
Get on it!
uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/uqcare...
I have been enjoying more and more linguistics content on here over the past couple of years since I left the Other Place.
I hope we can keep it growing!
After almost 4 weeks, our little boy has finally been discharged from the hospital and we're home!
Can't thank the incredible staff at Centenary Hospital for Women and Children enough for saving the life of our newborn. 💚
Medicare is a TREASURE. Protect it. Don't take it for granted! 💪⚕️💚
